One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Maxxxine”. Mia Goth as the porn star trying to make it into the big time. Ti West misses slightly. 3.5/5.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Val” (2021). Another of my Australia-flight films, “Val” is not the sticky-back-plastic biopic of Valerie Singleton all Brits have longed for, but an intimate and thoughtful autobiography of the actor Val Kilmer. It’s available to stream (e.g. on Amazon Prime). Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot Summary: Actor Val … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Smile” (2022). I remember that one of the early horror films I saw with an “18” certificate (or actually “X” certificate in those days, just before it changed) was a rather unpleasantly ‘rapey’ film called “The Entity” in 1982. Barbara Hershey was a woman stalked by a malicious invisible … Read more
The undiscovered country… which they shouldn’t have returned to. The movies have depicted the hereafter in varied ways over the years. From the bleached white warehouses of Powell and Pressburger’s “A Matter of Life and Death” in 1946 and Warren Beatty’s “Heaven Can Wait” in 1978 to – for me – the peak of the … Read more
A Marathon Investigation. While there are predictable social media conspiracy theories that the “whole thing was a hoax”, the two bombs that went off near the finish line of the Boston marathon on April 15th 2013 killed three members of the public and injured more than 250 others. It was a life-changing event for those … Read more